Instead of bailing out lapdogs for the government and mouthpieces for the wealthy, how about giving seed money to alternative journalists who actually report the news without pulling punches?

There are hundreds of alternative news sites and thousands of hard-hitting investigative journalists who are struggling to make ends meet (you’ve seen their “please contribute” posts), who put out more real “news” than all of the mainstream papers put together.

If the government is going to bail out anyone, they should bail out them.